mesa

See also: Mesa, mésá, mesá, mėsa, and meša

English

Etymology

First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: māʹsə, IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.sə/

  • Audio (RP)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪsə

Noun

mesa (plural mesas)

1. Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.

   Coordinate term: butte

   Hyponyms: potrero, tuya

   A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.

   • 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].

Derived terms

• Mesa County

Translations

flat area of land

• Bulgarian: плато n (plato)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臺地 (zh), 台地 (zh) (táidì)

• Esperanto: altebenaĵo
• Finnish: ylätasanko, pöytävuori (fi)
• German: Tafelberg (de) m
• Hebrew: הַר שֻׁלְחָן‎ (he) m (har shulrán)
• Hungarian: fennsík (hu)
• Italian: altopiano (it) m

• Navajo: dah azką́
• Norwegian: platå n
• Russian: столова́я гора́ (ru) f (stolovája gorá)
• Spanish: mesa (es)
• Swedish: taffelberg (sv) n
• Tagalog: talampas
• Turkish: masa dağı
• Vietnamese: núi mặt bàn

Further reading

• mesa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AMEs, ASME, Ames, EMAS, MSAE, Same, eams, mase, meas, meas., same, seam

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mesa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/, [ˈme.sa]
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural meses)

1. table

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Chamicuro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish mesa (“table”), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa

1. table

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French

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. mesa

Further reading

• “mesa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mesa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmesɐ]

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel,

     E pois eu doze perdizes,

     e de polos ducia e media

     lle hei de lebar se Deus quer,

     e se podo vnha Tenreyra,

     por ser prato regalado

     que se estima en calquer mesa.

     Then I twelve partridges

     and a dozen and a half chickens

     I ought to take, God willing,

     and if I can a calf [veal]

     because it is a delightful dish

     that is appreciated in any table.

2. all items set on a table for a meal
3. board; directors of an organization
4. stall, stand

   Synonym: trabanca

5. bed of a cart
6. stool

   Synonyms: banqueta, meso, tallo

7. bench

   Synonym: banco

Related terms

• mesado
• meso
• mesoiro

 

Further reading

• “mesa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

References

• “mesa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mesa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mesa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mesa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mesa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Gothic

Romanization

mēsa

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰

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Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /méː.sàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [méː.sàː]

Noun

mēsā̀ f (plural mēsōshī, possessed form mēsàr̃)

1. python
2. rubber hose

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Highland Popoluca

Alternative forms

• mensa (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa

1. table

References

• Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 83

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Kituba

Etymology

From Spanish mesa or Portuguese mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Latin

Etymology

From mensa, with regular loss of /n/ before /s/, along with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.sa/, [ˈmeːs̠ä]

Noun

mēsa f (genitive mēsae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, proscribed) Alternative form of mēnsa ("table").
   • 3rd–4th century C.E., Appendix Probi:

     mensa non mesa

     [Say or write] mensa, not mesa.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mēsa	mēsae
Genitive	mēsae	mēsārum
Dative	mēsae	mēsīs
Accusative	mēsam	mēsās
Ablative	mēsā	mēsīs
Vocative	mēsa	mēsae

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: measã
  • Romanian: masă (see there for further descendants)
• Dalmatian:
  • maisa
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch: maisa
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • French: moise
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: mesa
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: mesa
  • Asturian: mesa
  • Portuguese: mesa (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: mesa (see there for further descendants)
• Sardinian:
  • Sardinian: mesa
• Borrowings:
  • → Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐍃 (mēs)
  • → Old Irish: mías
    • Irish: mias
    • Scottish Gaelic: mias
  • → Slovene: miza
  • → Turkish: masa

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Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin missa.

Noun

mesa f (4 declension)

1. (Christianity) mass

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Luo

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili meza.

Noun

mesa

1. table

   Welo bet e mesa kae to ji chako chiemo.

   The meal begins, with the guests reclining at the table.

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Maquiritari

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mesa]

Noun

mesa

1. table

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “mesa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “mesai”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

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Occitan

Etymology

From metre.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. placement, placing

Verb

mesa

1. feminine singular of the past participle of metre

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀫𑁂𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• मेस (Devanagari script)
• মেস (Bengali script)
• මෙස (Sinhalese script)
• မေသ (Burmese script)
• เมส or เมสะ (Thai script)
• ᨾᩮᩈ (Tai Tham script)
• ເມສ or ເມສະ (Lao script)
• មេស (Khmer script)

Noun

mesa m

1. ram

Declension

Declension table of "mesa" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	meso	mesā
Accusative (second)	mesaṃ	mese
Instrumental (third)	mesena	mesehi or mesebhi
Dative (fourth)	mesassa or mesāya or mesatthaṃ	mesānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	mesasmā or mesamhā or mesā	mesehi or mesebhi
Genitive (sixth)	mesassa	mesānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	mesasmiṃ or mesamhi or mese	mesesu
Vocative (calling)	mesa	mesā

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese mesa and Spanish mesa and Kabuverdianu meza.

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Portuguese

mesa

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mesa (“table”), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa (“table”). Cognate with Galician mesa, Spanish mesa, French moise, Italian mensa and Romanian masă.

Not related to Persian میز‎ (mēz, “table”). As both it and Portuguese mesa have been borrowed into different languages of southern Asia, they are sometimes confused by etymologists.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.zɐ/, [ˈme.zɐ]

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈme.za/
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table (item of furniture)

   José, põe a mesa, por favor.

   José, please set the table.

   • 2015, Neil Gaiman, Os filhos de Anansi, Editora Intrinseca, →ISBN, page 6:

     Cumprimentou-as tocando a aba do chapéu — pois ele usava chapéu, um fedora verde imaculado, além de luvas cor de lima —, e em seguida caminhou até a mesa onde estavam as mulheres, que deram risada.

     He greeted them by touching the brim of his hat – for he wore a hat, an immaculate green fedora, and lime-colored gloves – and then walked to the table where the women were, who gave a laugh.

2. meal, food

   Portugal tem boa mesa e bom vinho.

   Portugal has good food and good wine.

3. (geography) mesa
4. board (committee)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mesa.

Derived terms

• mesa-de-cabeceira
• mesinha (diminutive)
• mesona (augmentative)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Javanese: méja
• → Kadiwéu: nameeja
• → Kaingang: mẽja
• → Kituba: mesa
• → Lingala: mésá
• → Luganda: mmeeza
• → Malay: meja
  • Indonesian: meja
• → Malayalam: മേശ (mēśa)
• Papiamentu: mesa
• → Sinhalese: මේසය (mēsaya)
• → Tamil: மேசை (mēcai), மேஜை (mējai)

Further reading

• “mesa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-mesa (infinitive kumesa, perfective -meshe)

1. wash clothing, launder

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Sardinian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table

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Spanish

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/, [ˈme.sa]
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
2. (by extension) dinner table
3. mesa
4. desk (in an office)
5. bureau, committee

Derived terms

• computadora de mesa
• computador de mesa
• de mesa ("tabletop")
• juego de mesa
• mesa de billar
• mesa de cartas
• mesa de comedor
• mesa de noche
• mesa electoral
• mesa redonda
• mesero
• mesilla
• mesita
• sal de mesa
• sobremesa
• tenis de mesa
• tornamesas
• vino de mesa

 

Descendants

• Chavacano: mesa
• ⇒ Cebuano: lamesa
• → Chamicuro: mesa
• → English: mesa
• → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: mesa
• ⇒ Higaonon: lamesa
• → Highland Popoluca: mesa
• → Kituba: mesa
• → O'odham: miːsa
• → Tagalog: mesa, ⇒ lamesa
• → Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: mesa
• → Zoogocho Zapotec: mes

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mesa

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of mesar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of mesar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of mesar.

Further reading

• “mesa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish mesa (“table”), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmesa/, [ˈmesɐ]
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa

1. table

Synonyms

• lamesa (often used interchangeably with mesa)

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Welsh

Etymology

From mes (“acorns”) +‎ -a. Cognate with Cornish mesa.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛsa/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːsa/, /ˈmɛsa/

Verb

mesa (first-person singular present mesaf)

1. to gather acorns

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	mesaf	mesi	mesa	meswn	meswch	mesant	mesir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	meswn	mesit	mesai	mesem	mesech	mesent	mesid
preterite	mesais	mesaist	mesodd	mesasom	mesasoch	mesasant	meswyd
pluperfect	mesaswn	mesasit	mesasai	mesasem	mesasech	mesasent	mesasid, mesesid
present subjunctive	meswyf	mesych	meso	mesom	mesoch	mesont	meser
imperative	—	mesa	mesed	meswn	meswch	mesent	meser
verbal noun	mesa
verbal adjectives	mesedig mesadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	mesa i, mesaf i	mesi di	mesith o/e/hi, mesiff e/hi	meswn ni	meswch chi	mesan nhw
conditional	meswn i	meset ti	mesai fo/fe/hi	mesen ni	mesech chi	mesen nhw
preterite	mesais i, meses i	mesaist ti, mesest ti	mesodd o/e/hi	meson ni	mesoch chi	meson nhw
imperative	—	mesa	—	—	meswch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
mesa	fesa	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mesa”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa. Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl me̱saj, Tetelcingo Nahuatl miesa.

Noun

mesa

1. Table.

References

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006), “Tlen ticuih itich in cocina”, in Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎^[4], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16